Emergency was the darkest period of Independent India: Keshari Nath Tripathi
Emergency was the darkest period of Independent India: Keshari Nath Tripathi
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 Keshari Nath Tripathi, the governor of West Bengal referred to the 1975 Emergency as the "darkest days of free India."

 

In the article 'Emergency- The Dark Hour', Nath criticised the emergency urged during former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's regime on India.

 

Lines from the write-up read, "The Emergency days were the darkest days in the post-independent India. How one can stoop so low to fulfil the lust for power was shamelessly demonstrated in those days in the activities of the then ruling party at the Centre? There was a reign of terror throughout the country. Illustrations of brutalities in different forms inflicted on innocent citizens are too many to count."

 

Tripathi also informed that during the Emergency period, people had to face extreme hardships.
He added, "There is always a limit even to atrocities but this limit was crossed every day during the Emergency. Many Congressmen were seen active in vindicating their personal grievances and forcing the police to arrest their political adversaries. Humanity was absent throughout the Emergency. Schools run by the RSS were taken over by the Government. Some of them were forced to close down. The newspaper 'Motherland' was also a victim of the Emergency. People used to fear to talk even to their close friends against the Emergency. Democracy had been throttled by every means and at every stage."
 

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